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Aug 2022
52m 33s

You 2.0: Befriending Your Inner Voice

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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You know that negative voice that goes round and round in your head, keeping you up at night? When that negative inner voice gets switched on, it's hard to think about anything else. Psychologist Ethan Kross has a name for it: chatter. He says it's part of the human condition, but there are ways to keep our negative emotions from morphing into chatter. 
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